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Jennifer Parker / Political Radar:
Biden on Obama's VP Pick: 'I'm Not The Guy' — ABC News' Z. Byron Wolf and Jennifer Parker report: As Delaware Sen. Joe Biden was leaving his house in Wilmington this afternoon, he slowed down and said to the gathered news reporters outside his home: “Hey guys, I'm not the guy. See ya.”
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Marc Ambinder:
Your VP, Senator. What Will “He” Be Like? — Sen. Barack Obama usually describes his vice presidential nominee with two pronouns joined by a conjunction... “he or she.” Tonight, in North Carolina, according to CBS News's Maria Gavrilovic, Obama was gender specific.
TheFounder / Tribble Ad Agency:
Barack Obama chooses Kathleen Sebelius for Vice President — We have a credible lead that Barack Obama will be announcing Kathleen Sebelius for Vice President / VP. — Our sources work within an ad agency that is hired by the Obama campaign, and have noted that the vast majority …
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Michael Moore:
“Caroline: Pull a Cheney!” An Open Letter to Caroline Kennedy (head of the Obama VP search team) from Michael Moore — We've never met, so I hope you don't find this letter too presumptuous or inappropriate. As its contents involve the public's business, I am sending this to you via the public on the Internet.
John F. Harris / The Politico:
Nader predicts Obama to pick Clinton — Count Ralph Nader as unimpressed by the crop of supposed finalists to be Barack Obama's running mate. — “I don't think he's that dumb,” said Nader, commenting on widespread speculation that Obama's choices are down to Sens. Joe Biden, Evan Bayh, or Virginia Gov. Tim Kaine.
Howard Fineman / MSNBC:
Biden the clear frontrunner for Veep — Foreign Relations Committee chairman has globe-trotting credentials — ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. - I've recently spoken with two of the finalists for the role of Barack Obama's running-mate, and to two other sources who are close to the process.
Tahman Bradley / Political Punch:Obama Uses “He” Pronoun When Discussing His VP
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Bill Carter / TV Decoder:
Rachel Maddow to Replace Dan Abrams on MSNBC — Rachel Maddow, shown filling in for Keith Olbermann on “Countdown” last month. Ms. Maddow will host the 9 p.m. hour beginning Sept. 8. (Ress Greenberg/ New York Times) — Just in time for the closing rush of the presidential election …
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Keith Olbermann / Daily Kos:
Rachel Gets Her Own MSNBC Show — Happy Now? — The network will be formally announcing this tomorrow, but I am pleased to inform you in this fully authorized leak, that as of Monday, September 8, our mutual friend Ms. Maddow will become host of her own show, on MSNBC, at 9 PM Eastern Time.
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Michael Finnegan / Los Angeles Times:
Obama and McCain in a statistical tie — People watch as Sen. Obama arrives at the Sheraton hotel today in Raleigh North Carolina. McCain and his allies have portrayed Obama in recent weeks as a naive celebrity who is unprepared to lead the nation in dangerous times.
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David Gergen / CNN:Is the tide turning? — CNN Senior Political Analyst
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Kevin Drum / Washington Monthly:
MOVING TIME....I have some news to share: on Friday, after four wonderful years at the Washington Monthly, I'll be picking up my keyboard and moving to a new blog at Mother Jones magazine. Here's the new URL: … There nothing there yet except for a welcome message, but starting on Friday, that's where I'll be blogging full time.
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Carpetbagger / The Carpetbagger Report:
Just call me, ‘Political Animal’ — Now that my friend Kevin Drum has made the announcement, I can pass along the big news. — Starting this Friday, Aug. 22, Kevin will be leaving the Washington Monthly, heading over to a new blog at Mother Jones. He'll be replaced at Political Animal by ... me.
The Politico:
McCain weighs a Lieberman surprise — John McCain is seriously considering choosing a pro-abortion-rights running mate despite vocal resistance from conservatives, with former Democratic vice presidential nominee Joseph I. Lieberman (I-Conn.) very much in the mix, close McCain advisers say.
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James Taranto / Wall Street Journal:
Talk About Audacity! — Speaking before the Veterans of Foreign Wars this morning, Barack Obama delivered an amazing show of chutzpah. John McCain had addressed the VFW yesterday, and as the Associated Press reports, he was predictably critical of Obama: … Here is Obama's reply:
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Pete Yost / Associated Press:
University won't open Obama-related records now — WASHINGTON - The University of Illinois on Tuesday refused to release records relating to Barack Obama's service to a nonprofit group linked to former 1960s radical activist William Ayers. — The university's Chicago campus said the donor …
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Greg Sargent / TPM Election Central:
Solzhenitsyn Biographer: Cross-In-Dirt Gulag Story Never Happened — There's been a ton of buzz on the web for the last day or so — beginning with this Daily Kos diary — suggesting that John McCain patterned his story about a Vietamese captor drawing a cross in the dirt before him on a similar episode …
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Ben Smith / The Politico:
McClellan to Obama: Don't investigate us — Scott McClellan advises Obama, in an interview with my colleague Daniel Libit, not to investigate the Bush administration — because it would, McClellan says, damage Obama's image. (Not that former Bushies have anything at stake in that choice.)
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David Freddoso / The Corner:
Obama's Audacity in Using the L-word — Amazing, Kathryn. Obama's campaign is trying to turn the argument away from his own repeated misrepresentations — not only proven but even admitted — about what he did and what he voted against. — Instead of apologizing to the people Obama wrongly called …
Daniel Bates / Daily Mail:
7/7 bombers were given £20,000 funding... by Children in Need — The BBC's Children in Need gave £20,000 raised by the general public to fund the 7/7 bombers, it emerged last night. — The cash was given to an Islamic bookshop operated by bombers Mohammed Siddique Khan …
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